Method of producing photographic representations of structural designs.



c; GLBMENTS. METHOD OF PRODUCING PHOTOGRAPHIG REPRESENTATIONS OF STRUCTURAL DESIGNS.

APPLICATION FILED JAR.2, 1908.

Patented Jan. 26, 1909.

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WITH E5 5 E 5 fil /J. 1L a W- %%W sent'ed. In the drawings hereto annexed which illus-' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES CLEMENTS, 0F BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS.

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To cll'whom it may concern:

Belt known thatI, CHARLES (Earn/inure, a

- citizen of the United States, and resident of signs may made to present vividly the prominent features-of the structures repretrate my invention, Fi rel is a front elevation of a composite ob ect for photographic reproduction and Fig. 2 is a cross-section of such an object, shown as contained in a fraine.

submitting desi us for ornamental among the most effective resources of the designer and while he, by constant contact and experience with the materials of his craft,

may be well able to picture to himself the resultant effect of a design when wrought into its ultimate materials, it is unusual for he person towhom the design is submitted nd whose approval or disapproval may be final, to stimulate his imagination to the oint of adequately visualizing what may be t e most essential elements in the design.

It might be assumed b those unfamiliar with this subject that a p otograph from'an actual structure would convey better than any other vehicle an adequate idea of the structure itself; this, however, is byno means true, as my own experience and that of others has often demonstrated. The photograph almost invariably shows the structure very much reduced fromtits natural size so that the essential peculiarities and contrasts of grain, texture, marking, color, etc. which 55 render the actual object distinctive and Specification ,0! Letters Patent. Application filed January 2, 1908. can ndlillaose.

st ctures, especially w etc, as is usuallythe Patented Ian. 26, 1909;

pleasing are for the most part, if not wholly, suppressed and obliterated by the process of photographic reproduction. It is obvioiisly impossible to furnish pho togra he in full size of many objects of art and are tooture, and it is also obviogsl imcpossible by any means heretofore em eye to reproduce, with fidelity, in the esign of a structure which exists only in contemplation, those features of peculiar texture, grain, etc; which are peculiar to the materials intended to be em eyed.

y my "invention herein described there maybe produced an. unlimited variety of composite objects for photographic re roductlon which shall present to the eye of the observer the salient features selected by the designer, in their natural ap earance; and the natural appearance will e accentuated in the design as a whole b reason of the fact that, while the design, be drawn to a reducedlscale, those salient portions which the designer wishes to emphasize/will have their natural details exaggerated in relation to the desi a whole and thus stand prominent y forth, conveyin to the person for whom the design is ma e a vivid and therefore adequate idea of the ap earance which the structure will assume 'won completed. This device employs what might be called a trickef art analogous to that exhibited in some Italian alto relieves wherein the sculptor represented dancers slightly distorted,

the attitudes of the figures thus affording a striking su gestion of actual movement. or this trio of art may be likened to the employment of exaggerated and accentuated high lights which lend emphasis and verisimilitude to a painting though they are by no means rigidly true to nature.

Referring to the drawings A represents a desi sheet upon which is drawn in the usua way are resentation of the structure which is the su 'ect of the desi 11. As this design is primaril reproduction, the drawing thereon W1 preferably be a wash drawing, supplemented by structural line drawing for the outlines. In conformit with the motive of the design, a

ort'iono the sheet is cut out along the out- 105 line of some salient feature, the edges of the resulting openings being shown at c in Figs.

1 and 2. v In the illustration the design is shown of a monument, and if we supposethat its ma- 110.

yintended forp oto raphic 100 terial is to be granite and the salient feature thereof is to be the polished aneling of the monument the design sheet W1 1 be cut out on the outline of the panels. I then take either a piece of granite, cut and polished, or a photograph of such a piece of ranite in its natural size so as to show t e mottling and marking as erfectly as the natural stone, and lay it be ind the design sheet A so that the surface of the stone or the facsimile reproduction thereof which presents the natural appearance of the stone, shows through. In Fig. 2 I have illustrated a piece of stone as B placed behind the design sheet A, the two hein secured in a frame 0 by clips or buttons This composite object is then laced before the camera and photographed. Tf desired, a portion of the natural object or its facsimile re resentation may be shaded with a wash 0 india ink so as to present contrasts as of light and shade in the photogra hic reproduction of a composite object.

lo I have shown, by way of illustration, a composite object for photographic reproduction in which natural stone or a facsimile thereof is employed, the same idea may be carried out according to this invention by using natural woods, textile fabrics, ornamental paper, in short, what you will; according to the nature of the structure which the design as a whole represents. The

fact that the natural object which formsv exaggerates those qualities which this material would eventually contribute to the structure represented and thus emphasizes to the eye of the observer the effect which the material selected is intended to produce.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

The method of producing hotographic representations of structural d esigns wiich consists in drawing the design upon a sheet in the usual manner. cutting away portions of said sheet within the outline of said design and in conformity with the motive thereof, arranging behind the resulting openings surfaces presentin the natural appearance of the material to e used in the finished struc ture represented by thedesign, the details of such surfaces being of exaggerated proportion in relation to the dimensions of the design, and finally photographing the composite surface so formed.

Signed by me at Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts this fourteenth day of December 1907.

CHARLES (ELEMENTS. Witnesses:

ODIN Ronnn'rs, Bonner Cusnmas. 

